Gravito-optical surface trap

Fig. 9.22 (a) Scheme of a gravito-optical surface trap (GOST) with an evanescent wave and a hollow laser beam, (b) production of a hoUow beam, (c) level scheme for optical cooling in the GOST... 

This works very well as can be seen from the radial intensity profiles in Fig. 9.22d. Because the trap is based on a combination of gravitations force and optical force field, it is often named GOST (gravito-optical surface trap). 

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See also in sourсe #XX -- [ ]

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